Bank



Jan. 5 1926. 1,568,575

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BANK

Filed August 23, 1920 1&1? n

Patented Jan. 5, i925.

ATENT OFFICE..

ZENO M. SPEER, OF WAUWATOSA, WISCONSIN, ASSGNOR TO SPEER-ROSEFELT CAL- ENDAR BANK, INCORPORATED, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, A CORPRA'I'EON OF WISCONSIN.

BANK.

Application tiled August 23, 1920.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that l, Znno M, Srnnn, a citizen of the United States, residing at lilauwatosm in the county of Milwaukee and State of lNisconsin, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Banks, of which the following is a full, clear, concise. and exact description, reference being` had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification.

My invention relates to calendar banks, or more specifically described, to savings banks in which is employed a coin controlled perpetua-l calendar which may be advanced daily by the insertion of appropriate coins. The particular purpose of the device is to stimulate the habit of regular and syste matic saving.

One of the principal objects of the invention is to devise a construction of calendar bank of the fewest and simplest parts, capable of being made and assembled at minimum cost. The calendar type of bank has a particular Held of utility as a savings bank adapted for distribution by banking institutions to their savings depositors. To fulfillV the requirements of this use, it is primarily essential that the bank be of extremely low cost, so as to induce the adoption of the bank for distribution by the banking institutions, and to this end I have devised an extremely simple construction which is capable of production at a relatively low costf lilith 'this in view, a further object of the invention has been to provide a form of advancing mechanism for the calendar element wherein the coin itself is made to function as the advancing instrumentality hy ar- 40 ranging the coin to engage directly with the calendar wheel so to move bodily with the calendar wheel through its advancing throw. Heretofore, the general practice has been to advance the calendar wheel through the intervention of complicated pawl and ratchet mechanism or the like which was actuated or controlled by the coin. The necessity for this complication has been entirely eliminated by the present construction.

A further object of the invention is to provide a simplified and positive form of `integrating or advancing mechanism for automatically advancing the months wheel Serial No. 405,291.

at the proper calendar period in the ation of the bank.

Referring to the accompanying drawings wherein l have illustrated a preferred enibodinient of my invention;

Figure l is a front elevational view of a calendar bank embodying my invention;

Figure 2 is a vertical sectional view through the casing of the bank;

Figure 3 is a plan view of the bank;

Figure Ll is a horizontal sectional view taken on the plane of the line l-- of Fig'- ure l; and

Figure 5 is a detail sectional view takei on the plane of the line of Figure The calendar bank mechanism is enclosed in a sheet metal housing 63 which engages down over a removable bottom plate 6 t having enclosed end walls 65 and Gti. 'lho front of the housing 68 is provided with two sight openings 67 and 68 through which are exposed the legends on the days and months wheels. The top wall of the housing G8 is provided with the usual coin slots 69 and 7l for the insertion of coins into the bank, the former slot 69 being the slot through which coins for advancing the calendar are inserted. In this embodiinen the calendar wheels are constructed as d 72 and '78, the large disc 72 having the merals corresponding to the days of the month inscribed on the face thereof and the small disc 73 laying the naines of the montar.` marked oftl radially thereon. Both discs are supported in close proximity to the 'iront wall of the housing 63 upon shafts 7l and 75 which are supported in a vertical i;ti tion or wall 76 which extends be 1w thc end plates 65 and 66 of the removable t ittom Gil. The ends of the partition plates 76 are flanged to fasten to the vertical inner walls 65 and G6, and the partition plate 7 6 extends from the bottom plate 64 to the height indicated in Figure ll for the purpose of defining a. spacious coin compartment to the rear of the plate 76, as indicated at 78. As a result of this construction, the removable of the bottom plate Get will carry with it the partition plate 7 6 and the calendar wheels 7 2 and 73 supported thereon, and will discharge the coins from the coin compartment 78. Any suitable form of lock may, of course, be provided for locking` this removable bottom in the housing lt oper- CII will be noted that by the use of discs as iiidicating wheels and by disposing` these discs in the same plane a very arrow, compact construction is obtained.

The days indicating wheel 72 has its periphery formed with a plurality of scalloped indentations 79 correspendingl to the number of days in the longest month, these scalloped indentations being struck on arcs of substantially the same radius that of the coin for adi/anciiig the calendar bank. The coin slot 69 is aligned directly above the days wheel 72 and adjacent one `end of the housing 63. To advance the calendar, a coin is inserted through the slot whereupon it automatically seats along` periphery in one of the scalloped indentations 7 9. The coin is thence thrustJ downward diagonally by pressing the same with the thumb or finger until the coin passes below the margin of the slot (39 into the position indicated in full lines. U t

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:it the coinpletion of this downward thrusting motion of the coin, the coin has functioned to Vance the days wheel 72 through one step. Then the coin reaches approximately the position indicated lin full lines. it is ejected laterally from the indentation 79 and is discharged over into the coin compartinent 78. This ejection of the coin from the calendar disc is accomplished by a short leaf spring 8O (Figure 5) which is secured at its upper end to the front wall of the housing G3 and which at its lower resilient end projects into the path of the coins. As the coin is depressed through the slot 69 in perforiA ing the advancing operation, it ineets the increasing lateral tension of the spring- SO which tends to eject the coins laterally from the disc 72 and discharge them into tne coin compartment 7 8. As long as the upper porton of the coin is confined between the sides of the slot 69 and as long as-the coin is firmly pressed against the calendar disc 72, the ejecting spring 8O is of no avail for ejecting the coin from the disc` As soon,` however, as the coin passes below the upper margin of the coin slot 69 and as soon as the dejiressing tension on the coin .released by the coin passing beyond the influence of the depressing finger, the ejecting spring 80 immediately becomes effective for ejecting the coin and clearing the coin passage for the next succeeding coin. By reason of the inability of the spring S() to eject the coin until it reaches such position, it is always assured that the coin will impart a full advancing step to the calendar disc before it can be ejected therefrom.. The disc 72 is retained in its exact indicating position after each advancing step by a .detent spring S2 which is secured to the bottom plate Gt and which engages in the scalloped periphery of the disc. A flange or shelf 83 may be bent over from the partition plate 76 at the end of the coin passage to limit the downward motion of the coins and to prevent any of the coins from accidentally entering the calendar wheel space between. the front wall of the housing and the partition plate 7G.

The carry-over operation between the cal eiidar discs 72 and 73 is performed by a projecting pin Silon the rear ofthe disc 72 which is adapted to engage with a series of pins 85 projecting from the rear of the months disc 73. iectly in rear of the numeral 3l on the days disc 72, so that it will be timed to engage the cooperating pin 85 on the disc 73 and advance the latter at the same time that the numeral l is presented at the sight opening 67. The months disc 7 3 is accurately mainftained in its various indicating positions by a detent spring 87 which is securedto the bottom wall Get and vwhichengages at its upper end between the pins 85, i

I do not intend to be limited tothe particular details herein shown and described,

except as they are specifically defined in the appended claim.

I claim:

In a device of the class described, in combination, a casing, a wall subdividing a relatively narrow compartment along one face,v a slot in the casing aligned with said com-- partinent, a registering wheel in said com-4 partment positioned for direct engagement with the edge of an inserted coin, a second slot opening over the other portion of the casing, resilient means engaging aroin inserted through said first slot and ieiis'oned by insertion thereof for defiecting .said coin laterally into the portion of the casing .unH der said second slot, and a biasing springl for said registering wheel whereby the load on the coin is suddenly released to permitsaid deiieeting means 4to act.

In witness whereof I hereunto subscribe n y naine this 19th day of August, 192.0.

ZENO M. SPEER.

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